Sr. PHP Programmer Interview Questions And Answers

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☛ Mysql_fetch_array Fetch a result row as an associative array, a numeric array, or both.

☛ mysql_fetch_object ( resource result ) Returns an object with properties that correspond to the fetched row and moves the internal data pointer ahead. Returns an object with properties that correspond to the fetched row, or FALSE if there are no more rows

☛ mysql_fetch_row() fetches one row of data from the result associated with the specified result identifier. The row is returned as an array. Each result column is stored in an array offset, starting at offset 0.

Most programmers know this, but interviewers will likely look for a deep understanding of MVC, and some explanation or examples on how/why/ when you used it.

MVC- Model, View, Controller - is simply a way of organizing your code into 3 separate layers each with there own job.

☛ Model - Usually contains data access code and all of you business logic code.
☛ View - Contains markup/design code, generally html,xml, json.
☛ Controller - Usually contains very little code, just whatever is needed to call the Model code and render the View code.

Magic methods are basically triggers that occur when particular events happen in your coding. __GET, __SET are magic methods that are called (behind the seen) when you get or set a class property.

No, the value of a constant cannot be changed once it's declared during the PHP execution.

PSRs are PHP Standards Recommendations that aim at standardizing common aspects of PHP Development.

An example of a PSR is PSR-2, which is a coding style guide.

Notices, Warnings and Fatal errors are the types of errors in PHP

☛ Notices:
Notices represents non-critical errors, i.e. accessing a variable that has not yet been defined. By default, such errors are not displayed to the user at all but whenever required, you can change this default behavior.

☛ Warnings:
Warnings are more serious errors but they do not result in script termination. i.e calling include() a file which does not exist. By default, these errors are displayed to the user.

☛ Fatal errors:
Fatal errors are critical errors i.e. calling a non-existent function or class. These errors cause the immediate termination of the script.

Output buffering in PHP buffers a scripts output. This buffer can be edited before returning it to the client. Without output buffering, PHP sends data to the web server as soon as it is ready. Output buffering "send" cookies at any point in the script. Cookies do not have to be necessarily sent near the start of page. Output buffers are stackable and hence sending to output is by choice.

It is used to print a data in the webpage, Example: <?php echo 'Global Guideline'; ?> , The following code print the text in the webpage

count() is used to count all elements in an array, or something in an object

mysql_select_db($db_name);

It is used to escapes special characters in a string for use in an SQL statement

strlen() function used to find the length of a string

Using define() directive, like define ("MYCONSTANT",150)

MD5 PHP implements the MD5 hash algorithm using the md5 function,
eg : $encrypted_text = md5 ($msg);

mcrypt_encrypt :- string mcrypt_encrypt ( string $cipher , string $key , string $data , string $mode [, string $iv ] );
Encrypts plaintext with given parameters

strpos() is used to find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string

Interfaces do not contain business logic, only method signatures that define a template that any classes implementing the interface must contain. Lets take an auto mobile for example. If we were to create and interface for a car we would want to define a few methods like drive, stop, turn left , turn right. This mean that any vehicle that is a car (aka implements the interface car) must have methods for these things, If they do not PHP will throw an error. So if your car is an BMW , Honda or Ford it must be able to stop. How it stops is up to each car (or PHP class) but it must be able to stop. Technically we can decide not to use an interface for cars, but then some types of cars are not forced to have a "stop" method.

They are trying to gauge your understanding of how class auto loading works. Review the "autoload" and "spl_autoload_register" function (note:you should use the later). The autoload function basically triggers a function when a class is instantiated, you can put whatever logic you like in it but generally you want to include the class file based on some sort of naming convention.

$$var sets the value of $var as a variable.

$day='monday';
$$day='first day of week';
echo $monday; //outputs 'first day of week'

This question might show an interview how playful and creative the candidate is because there are many options. $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]; is the easiest solution, but you can write x line scripts for this question.

<?php
echo array_sum(explode(',',$input));
?>

The explode function is one of the most used functions in PHP, so it's important to know if the developer knows this function. There is no unique answer to this question, but the answer must be similar to this one.

MIME - Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions.

MIME types represents a standard way of classifying file types over Internet.

Web servers and browsers have a list of MIME types, which facilitates files transfer of the same type in the same way, irrespective of operating system they are working in.

A MIME type has two parts: a type and a subtype. They are separated by a slash (/).

MIME type for Microsoft Word files is application and the subtype is msword, i.e. application/msword.

☛ Here are the most important things to know about variables in PHP.
☛ All variables in PHP are denoted with a leading dollar sign ($).
☛ The value of a variable is the value of its most recent assignment.
☛ Variables are assigned with the = operator, with the variable on the left-hand side and the expression to be evaluated on the right.
☛ Variables can, but do not need, to be declared before assignment.
☛ Variables in PHP do not have intrinsic types - a variable does not know in advance whether it will be used to store a number or a string of characters.
☛ Variables used before they are assigned have default values.
☛ PHP does a good job of automatically converting types from one to another when necessary.
☛ PHP variables are Perl-like.

To define a constant you have to use define() function and to retrieve the value of a constant, you have to simply specifying its name. Unlike with variables, you do not need to have a constant with a $.

_FILE_ − The full path and filename of the file. If used inside an include,the name of the included file is returned. Since PHP 4.0.2, _FILE_ always contains an absolute path whereas in older versions it contained relative path under some circumstances.